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Consulting & Team
Composition of service
- 2 University Professors Hospital Practitioners
- 4 Hospital Practitioners
- 1 Head of Clinic of Universities · Assistant of Hospitals
- 1 Specialist Assistant
- 1 junior doctor
- 1 senior health officer
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Our support
TasksThe Neurosurgery department at CHU Caen Normandie provides care for all cranial and spinal neurosurgical pathology in the entire former Basse-Normandie region and neighboring geographical areas. The service provides 24/7 emergency activity throughout the year. Clinical activities include consultations, diagnostic procedures and treatments for neurosurgical conditions requiring specific monitoring and/or surgical intervention in both adult and pediatric pathology. The population basin is 1.8 million inhabitants.
ActivitiesEach year, more than 9,000 consultations and nearly 2,300 operations are carried out in the Neurosurgery department. Innovative techniques are regularly developed and evaluated within the framework of clinical research protocols. These techniques concern all themes and more particularly neurosurgical neuro oncology, spinal surgery, vascular neurosurgery and functional neurosurgery (except deep brain stimulation and SEEG).
CareCare activities cover all neurosurgical pathology, both in the adult and pediatric population, more specifically:
- Craniocerebral trauma (fractures, hematomas, cerebral oedema, etc.) ,
- Brain tumors (metastases, gliomas, meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, pituitary tumours, etc.),
- CSF circulation disorders (hydrocephalus, Chiari malformations, syringomyelia, etc.),
- Vascular pathology (cerebral aneurysm, arteriovenous malformations, cavernomas, etc.),
- Spinal pathology:
- Traumatic (vertebral fractures, ligament instability, etc.) ,
- Tumor (metastasis…) ,
- Degenerative (herniated disc, narrow lumbar canal, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, etc.),
- Innovative activities: disc prostheses, anterior approaches, percutaneous arthrodesis,
- Pathologies of the spinal cord (tumors, vascular malformations) ,
- Peripheral nerve pathologies (carpal tunnel, neuromas, etc.) ,
- Functional neurosurgery:
- Chronic pain surgery (cerebral or spinal cord stimulation, cordotomies, drezotomy, morphine pumps, vascular-nervous decompression and balloon for trigeminal neuralgia, radiofrequency techniques),
- Surgery for refractory epilepsy (essentially lesional) ,
- Spasticity surgery (neurotomies, tenotomies, Baclofen pumps) ,
- Pediatric neurosurgery (craniostenosis, brain tumours, hydrocephalus, dysraphisms) .
Hospitalizations
The Service has 57 full hospitalization beds spread over three units (2 units on the 12th floor of the Côte de Nacre Tower and 1 unit on the 11th floor , with a continuous care sector of 5 beds) . In addition 2 HDJ armchairs.
Pediatric hospitalization is at the FEH in the pediatric surgery and/or pediatric intensive care units.
The consultation sector organized on level 12 is divided into 4 consultation rooms and a room for rTMS stimulation and Pain nurse consultations. RAAC nurse is also located within the consultation sector.
Patients with serious neurosurgical pathologies requiring intensive care are hospitalized in the surgical intensive care unit (3 units on the 6th floor and 1 unit on the 16th floor ) .
Surgical activities are carried out in 2 operating rooms: a block dedicated to neurosurgery, on the 12th floor (3 operating rooms), and a block dedicated to emergency interventions in the University Hospital Emergency Medicine as well as access in the pediatric unit of the Woman·Child·Hematology Hospital ( FEH ) and some outpatient surgery shifts at the FEH as well.
The technical platform
The technical platform of the operating theater is made up of:
- 4 latest generation operating microscopes,
- 2 neuronavigation guidance systems,
- 1 neuro-sono-navigation guidance system,
- 1 neurosurgical endoscopy column,
- 3 ultrasonic vacuum cleaners,
- 1 stereotaxy system,
- 1 intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring system for awake surgery, and peripheral nerve monitoring for skull base surgery.
- Recently a navigation for the spine with 3D amplifier will be acquired as well as a third neuronavigation
Pathologies
Trigeminal neuralgia
What is trigeminal neuralgia? How to treat it? What techniques are used? You will find the answers in this patient sheet.
Professor Évelyne Emery (neurovascular decompression and percutaneous techniques) and Dr Arthur Leclerc (percutaneous techniques) are able to see you in consultation to take care of you.
Radiosurgery is not performed in our center.
Arnold's neuralgia
What is Arnold's neuralgia (or occipital nerve)? How to treat it? You will find the answers in this patient information sheet.
Professor Evelyne Emery , Dr Camille Di Palma and Dr Arthur Leclerc are able to receive you in consultation to take care of you.
Facial hemispasm
What is facial hemispasm? What treatments are available? What are the post-operative consequences?
Professor Evelyne Emery is able to receive you for a consultation to take care of you.
Pituitary adenoma
What is a pituitary adenoma? Is it necessary to operate? What treatments are available? You will find the answers in this patient information sheet.
Professor Evelyne Emery , Professor Thomas Gaberel and Dr Frédérick Rault are able to receive you for consultation to take care of you.
Clivus chordoma
What is a clivus chordoma? How does the surgery take place? What are the surgical risks? You will find the answers in this patient information sheet.
Professor Thomas Gaberel and Dr Frédérick Rault are able to receive you in consultation to take care of you.
Awake Surgery for Brain Tumors
How is awake surgery performed for the treatment of a brain tumor? Why operate with awake surgery?
All the answers are in this video.
Professor Evelyne Emery and Dr Arthur Leclerc are able to receive you for a consultation to take care of you.
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Main Access
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Consultation tray · Door D
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